Photoshop

Photography of a Salon in Andover MA designed by DMS design.  Timing of a shoot is always challenging.  You want the space to look great without a lot of extra time in setup and disruption to the client.  This shoot was photographed the day before the grand opening.  The shoot was fun and the client pleased with the results.

This interior photography project was with one of my Food Photography clients.  Plum Island Cookie Company is a cookie company located on Plum Island MA, specializing in hand-made french butter cookies.

Its not often you get to have the owner of the architectural firm accompany you as the “assistant” on a photoshoot. This project turned out to be a great shoot with weather that kept giving us surprise after surprise at every turn. Cloud cover is always best when a little drama is present. I probably could of pulled even more range out of these clouds but at some point it starts looking a bit unrealistic.

Entry view

Moving so quickly through the interiors forced me to work with available lighting and finishing in post production. Not ideal but with the owner pushing you got to do what you got to do. This particular interior of one of the dining rooms was purposely overdone (for my tastes) to exaggerate the connections the dining spaces have with the outdoors.

Outdoor Dining – Seating

In the end, we pulled off about 48+ shots in 6-7 hours. After reviewing all the shots I think we will end up with 20 keepers. I spent approximately 10 hours processing a bunch for a meeting and will probably spend another 5 to get them to a point that I am comfortable.

This was a quick photoshoot for a client looking to update some shots for his website. Since I only had a short amount of time to actually shoot so I relied on post processing to removing several items that I couldn’t move out of the shot and cleaned up the gravel drive including weeds and bare spots.

Sometimes when I walk into a shoot and I really don’t have a sense of the conditions. With this project, being only a half day shoot, I made a pre-visit in the day and would be shooting it at night, after closing. The lighting ended up being pretty interesting and very controllable. Dimmers with lots of accent lighting all helped the shoot with minimal added lighting.